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<blockquote data-quote="Badkarmaboy" data-source="post: 3789801" data-attributes="member: 39489">I found this on Rich Baker's Blog <a href="http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13860206#post13860206" target="_blank">here</a> .Relevant text:&quot;Speaking of sunshine, here's a nice little ray of it I can share with everybody today: We've managed to book Ed Greenwood for 50,000 words of the new 4th Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. You might wonder why that would be something that even be remotely in question, but the fact is that Ed's a very busy guy with a number of other writing commitments (most notably for our own Forgotten Realms novels!) so it took some scheduling gymnastics on our part to make sure we could have him for a couple of months of writing time.In light of that, our story team had a good meeting specifically about FR yesterday afternoon. We reviewed our original revision plans (they're almost two years old) and talked about where we are with the porject, and we kicked around the question of how much &quot;course correction&quot; we want to make now that you fans have responded to some of the big reveals at the end of the Grand History. We're not pitching the plan and starting over (if that's what you were hoping for, sorry, ain't gonna happen), but we are definitely tweaking the plan to speak to some of the how-can-this-still-be-the-Realms! concerns that are out there. I like where we got to, and I think most of you will too.&quot;Given the amount of angst surrounding FR and the other threads stating that Ed doesn't like what's been done, what do you all think of this news?I didn't see this already posted, but if it is, feel free to kill this thread.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Badkarmaboy, post: 3789801, member: 39489"] I found this on Rich Baker's Blog [URL=http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?p=13860206#post13860206]here[/URL] . Relevant text: "[COLOR=DarkOrange]Speaking of sunshine, here's a nice little ray of it I can share with everybody today: We've managed to book Ed Greenwood for 50,000 words of the new 4th Edition Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. You might wonder why that would be something that even be remotely in question, but the fact is that Ed's a very busy guy with a number of other writing commitments (most notably for our own Forgotten Realms novels!) so it took some scheduling gymnastics on our part to make sure we could have him for a couple of months of writing time. In light of that, our story team had a good meeting specifically about FR yesterday afternoon. We reviewed our original revision plans (they're almost two years old) and talked about where we are with the porject, and we kicked around the question of how much "course correction" we want to make now that you fans have responded to some of the big reveals at the end of the Grand History. We're not pitching the plan and starting over (if that's what you were hoping for, sorry, ain't gonna happen), but we are definitely tweaking the plan to speak to some of the how-can-this-still-be-the-Realms! concerns that are out there. I like where we got to, and I think most of you will too.[/COLOR]" Given the amount of angst surrounding FR and the other threads stating that Ed doesn't like what's been done, what do you all think of this news? I didn't see this already posted, but if it is, feel free to kill this thread. [/QUOTE]

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